Category: Middle East & North Africa
Reviews from the Middle East and North African countries
Armageddon foreseen
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Was a masterpiece by Mario Vargas Llosa about the Brazilian ‘War of Canudos’ really referring to Israel’s rampage through the Middle East? Review: The War of the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane, 1985, Faber & Faber (1981, Seix Barral)
Categories: Brazil, Middle East & North Africa, Peru
Green trailblazers
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Two books place Latin America in the vanguard of climate debates. Reviews: Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World; and The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South America
Trump’s deadly distraction
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Asymmetric wordfare
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Iran’s ties with Latin America have been distorted by US and Israeli narrative terrorism. We review titles about the Islamic Republic’s engagement with other targets of imperialism
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Middle East & North Africa, South America, United States, Venezuela
Tyranny’s rehearsal
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The Iran-Contra affair was a dry run for Trump’s extremism. The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy, Alan McPherson, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Central America, International, Iran, Middle East & North Africa, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Refuge and race
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The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, 2023, The University of Chicago Press
Categories: Brazil, International, Middle East & North Africa, South America, Syria
The borderless bourgeoisie
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Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries, Kevin Funk, 2022, Indiana University Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, International, Mexico, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South America